
Life & death in the industrial era
Excavations of post-medieval burial grounds have increased in recent years and can involve large-scale investigations where burials number in their thousands, requiring innovative methodologies and sampling... Read more
Research Seminars
Launched in 2021, the OA Research Seminar series showcases OA’s work across all periods over wide geographical areas. The underlying concept reflects our strategy to use a research-led approach to our... Read more

Medieval urban provisioning, c. 1066-1485: a research seminar
Oxford Archaeology’s sixth research seminar focused on the provisioning of medieval towns across England, including evidence relating to Carlisle, Oxford, Norwich, King’s Lynn and Colchester.Using... Read more

April highlights from OA's 50 years of archaeology
With our April highlights we travelled to Corby, Northamptonshire, for a Roman site that won Current Arcaheology's Rescue Project of the Year in 2022. From there, we visited the Early Medieval monastic... Read more

March highlights from OA's 50 years of archaeology
March highlights took us all the way to the Mesolithic with the first confirmed cremation from the period (watch this space for more news about that!), then to Heathrow T5 and Stansted when Oxford Arcaheology... Read more

New Oxford Cotswold Archaeology project started with work on A417 Missing Link
Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) has started work on National Highways' A417 Missing Link project. Working with Kier Highways, the OCA team expects to help reveal the changing landscape and the lives... Read more

50 highlights to celebrate Oxford Archaeology's 50 years of archaeology
In 2023 Oxford Archaeology is celebrating fifty years at the forefront of archaeological practice in the UK6th January 2023Founded in 1973 as the Oxfordshire Archaeological Unit (the ‘shire’ was later... Read more

January's highlights from OA's 50 years of archaeology
A round-up of January's highlightsAll Saints church excavations, Oxford, 1973-74The runic curse tablet from Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, 2017-18The Ferry Fryston chariot burial, Ferrybridge, West... Read more